{"id":2281,"date":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/using-the-theories-of-karl-marx-herbert-marcuse-and-john-rawls-explore-how-the-notion-of-exploitation-is-inherent-to-all-socio-economic-practices-which-have-impacted-the-wealth-gap-in-america-over\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"using-the-theories-of-karl-marx-herbert-marcuse-and-john-rawls-explore-how-the-notion-of-exploitation-is-inherent-to-all-socio-economic-practices-which-have-impacted-the-wealth-gap-in-america-over-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2021\/01\/12\/using-the-theories-of-karl-marx-herbert-marcuse-and-john-rawls-explore-how-the-notion-of-exploitation-is-inherent-to-all-socio-economic-practices-which-have-impacted-the-wealth-gap-in-america-over-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the theories of Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, and John Rawls, explore how the notion of exploitation is inherent to all socio-economic practices which have impacted the wealth gap in America over the last two centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of income inequality is becoming increasing prevalent within today\u2019s society, currently the world\u2019s richest 1% have more than twice as much wealth as 6.9 billion people, and nowhere on earth is this situation more problematic than America.<br \/>\nWithin my project I investigate American society and the socio-economic practices it has adopted over the last 200 years. I used the books The Theory of The Leisure Class, The Affluent Society, and What Money Can\u2019t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, as together they create a timeline of how this western society\u2019s economic and social practices have evolved. This allowed me to unpack some of the key practices which have directly impacted the American wealth gap. Such as: Conspicuous Consumption, Mass-Production, Aggressive Advertising and Commodification<br \/>\nFurthermore, the practices highlighted within my chosen texts allowed me to use the theories of Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, and John Rawls to investigate the exploitative aspects inherent to them. I used , Marx\u2019s The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital and other collected works, along with Marcuse\u2019s One-Dimensional Man as well as Rawls\u2019 Justice as Fairness: A Restatement and A Theory of Justice to find out how these thinkers would find these practices exploitative.<br \/>\nUltimately, I attempt to display how exploitation is a common a characteristic to all socio-economic practices which have impacted the American wealth gap over the last 200 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick White, 2021, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,22,123],"tags":[337,338,31],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-311","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-exploitation","tag-inequality","tag-marx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}